BUILD
Build and ship with AI.
Bring a laptop. Leave with an agent running on it, a deployment you can explain to your boss, or a pitch that got torn apart and put back together by people who have shipped.
Getting in: The labs and clinics in this room need a Pro pass ($149), or a $79 add-on for a single session. General admission ($39) covers the Exchange and expo floor and every main stage talk — but not this room.
Robots and live builds.
Agent labs, robots you can touch, and a prototype that works before you leave.
You walk out with
Four things that work when you get home
An agent running on your machine
Built in the lab, running when you close the laptop. Not a notebook you'll never open again.
A deployment you can explain
The architecture, the cost, the failure modes and the security review — in language your boss will accept.
A pitch that survived a hostile room
The heats are judged by people who will tell you what is wrong with it while there is still time to fix it.
A team, or a first user
Startup Alley puts you next to twenty-four other companies and a floor full of people who might buy.
What this costs everywhere else
We are not discounting anything. We put the things you leave with into one room, on one weekend, and charged for the room instead of the pieces.
Inside the room
What it actually looks like
Agent lab
Laptops open, code and output on screens.
Robots you can touch
Hardware on a table, someone's hand on it.
Startup Alley
A row of tables, founders talking to visitors.
A pitch heat
Founder mid-pitch, judges in frame.
The whiteboard
Architecture drawn out, people arguing about it.
The BUILD schedule
Sessions drop in October
Times, seats and session leaders
We publish the full run of show in October, along with seat counts for every capped session. Labs fill first, so the list goes to the mailing list before it goes on the site.
Get your passWhat will be in this room
- Agent-building labs — bring a laptop
- Deployment and architecture workshops
- Startup Alley — open both days
- Pitch heats, then the main-stage final
- Investor office hours
Startup Alley and the pitch heats
Twenty-five tables at a thousand dollars each, open to companies under three years old with fewer than fifteen employees. Demo all weekend, run the heats on Thursday, and the finalists pitch on the main stage Friday with investors in the audience. The cheapest table anywhere that puts you in front of enterprise buyers.
Apply for a tableRobots and live builds.
Robots, edge devices, and live builds on the floor. Agents and hardware assembled, tested, and shipped in real time, with the people who built them standing next to them.
Is this your room?
Who BUILD is built for
You'll fit right in if
Engineers, technical operators, data and platform people, founders and students. The people who will be asked to make the pilot actually work.
And if it isn't your room
A Pro pass covers all five. Start here, walk out, try another. Most people spend a day in one room and an afternoon in a second — and the Exchange sits in the middle of the floor on a general pass, connecting all of them.
You've built something and want to know if it holds up.
You can code, and you want AI to be the thing you ship.
You want to touch the hardware, not watch a slide about it.
Passes
$39 gets you in the building.
$149 gets you in this room.
The Exchange and expo floor both days, every main stage talk, and your profile on the Opportunity Board. Does not include labs or clinics.
Adds one capped lab or clinic, in any room, to a general pass. Buy as many as you like.
Every lab and clinic in all five rooms, included. This is the pass that opens the room, and it pays for itself against two add-ons.
Everything in Pro, plus the executive track. Day Zero on Wednesday is invitation only.
For companies
Two ways to own this room
BUILD experience partner — not yet claimed
One company owns this room outright for both days: the signage, the schedule, the showpiece and a 20x20 footprint inside it. There is no second BUILD partner. A cloud provider, a chip or hardware brand, a developer tools company, a VC or an accelerator. The room where technical adoption is decided.
Partner with BUILDTraining partner — open
The labs and clinics in this room need curriculum, instructors and tooling. We are looking for one training partner to build that with us and put their name on what people actually learn. A platform with a developer relations or model-access programme. Hands-on labs here put real builders on your API in a supervised room.
Talk to us about trainingStartup Showdown
The Startup Showdown is a live pitch competition on the BUILD track's main stage, judged by Industry Day executives and investors. Founders are scored on execution, product clarity and real-world viability — and every entrant needs an AIXP Exchange company profile to apply.
See the ShowdownWalk in with a question.
Walk out with work.
April 14–16, 2027 · POST HTX, Houston
Get a Pro pass — $149General admission from $39 — expo floor and main stage.